Michael Flaherty narrowly avoids disaster in the final at Seafair when (at 5:48) another boat turned directly in front of him, forcing Mike into the air as he runs over that roostertail, straight into another one to his right – scary stuff…

J. Michael Kelly took the U-13 on a qualifying run on the Ohio River and when he returned to the dock, the throttle control for the turbine engine would not shut off, forcing him into a choice of running into the dock and swimmers in the water, or running into the sea wall – he chose the wall…

This is a very interesting clip of Michael Flaherty in the supercharged UL-11, as it shows both in-cockpit and tail cam views as well as on-board radio communication audio. Video was captured with the ChaseCam PDR100

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